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Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960

R. Baxter Miller
Black American Poets Between Worlds 1940 1960 Book PDF

Author : R. Baxter Miller
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870495909

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Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960 by R. Baxter Miller Pdf

"This volume appraises distinguished black poets whose careers began to flower between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, a period of militant integration, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, a decade of militant separatism. Most of these writers were children of the Renaissance, then young adults during World War II, and finally middle-aged artists during the Korean conflict. The poets examined include Melvin Tolson, Robert Hayden, Dudley Randall, Margaret Esse Danner, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. The interpretive focus shifts from characterization and stylistic evolution to dialectic voices, prophecy, attitude toward the opposite sex, and the theme of recreation. As editor Miller notes, the poets balance mimetic and apocalyptic theories of literature. In Freudian terms they play id against superego; in Derridean terms they reconstruct ethical and phenomenological values aesthetically. Through ballad, sonnet, and free verse, they are the poets of memory, protest, tradition, and cultural celebration"--Book jacket.

Anne Spencer between Worlds

Noelle Morrissette
Anne Spencer between Worlds Book PDF

Author : Noelle Morrissette
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820362946

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Anne Spencer between Worlds by Noelle Morrissette Pdf

Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975. Through its attentiveness to Spencer’s published and unpublished work, her work as a librarian and an activist, and the political dimensions of her writing, Anne Spencer between Worlds transforms our understanding of Spencer. It offers a sustained examination of poetry and ecology, and the relationships among race, gender, and archives, through its analysis of the manuscripts that Spencer produced and revised throughout her life. Morrissette argues that the expansiveness, depth, and range of Spencer’s writing has not been appreciated because she did not publish this incomplete, ongoing work. She also demonstrates that careful reading of the manuscripts challenges many of the assumptions that have governed Spencer’s reception. In Anne Spencer between Worlds, Spencer emerges as a deeply engaged political poet who used the creative possibilities of the unpublished manuscript to explore pressing political and cultural concerns and to develop experimental cultural forms. In her unpublished manuscripts, Spencer pushed beyond the lyric mode to develop experimental forms that were alert to the expressive possibilities of the epic, prose, correspondence, and mixed genres. Indeed, Spencer’s manuscripts serve as witnesses of historical and poetic junctions for the poet and for the attentive reader of her archives.

A History of African American Poetry

Lauri Ramey
A History of African American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478

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A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey Pdf

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995

Julius E. Thompson
Dudley Randall Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit 1960 1995 Book PDF

Author : Julius E. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786422645

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Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 by Julius E. Thompson Pdf

In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were given an outlet for their work and for their calls for equality and black identity. Though Broadside was established on a minimal budget, Randall's unique skills made the press successful. He was trained as a librarian and had spent decades studying and writing poetry; most importantly, Randall was totally committed to the advancement of black literature. The famous and relatively unknown sought out Broadside, including such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Mae Jackson, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Sterling D. Plumpp. His story is one of battling to promote black identity and equality through literature, and thus lifting the cultural lives of all Americans.

American and British Poetry: 1979-1990

Harriet Semmes Alexander
American and British Poetry 1979 1990 Book PDF

Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Athens : Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009629036

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American and British Poetry: 1979-1990 by Harriet Semmes Alexander Pdf

Includes approximately 800 British and American poets, past and present, with criticisms drawn from more than 160 journals and 300 books

Encyclopedia of African American History [3 volumes]

Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker
Encyclopedia of African American History 3 volumes Book PDF

Author : Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097746

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Encyclopedia of African American History [3 volumes] by Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker Pdf

A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century. Encyclopedia of African American History introduces readers to the significant people, events, sociopolitical movements, and ideas that have shaped African American life from earliest contact between African peoples and Europeans through the late 20th century. This encyclopedia places the African American experience in the context of the entire African diaspora, with entries organized in sections on African/European contact and enslavement, culture, resistance and identity during enslavement, political activism from the Revolutionary War to Southern emancipation, political activism from Reconstruction to the modern Civil Rights movement, black nationalism and urbanization, and Pan-Africanism and contemporary black America. Based on the latest scholarship and engagingly written, there is no better go-to reference for exploring the history of African Americans and their distinctive impact on American society, politics, business, literature, art, food, clothing, music, language, and technology.

The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975

Lauri Ramey
The Heritage Series of Black Poetry 1962 1975 Book PDF

Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317029175

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The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975 by Lauri Ramey Pdf

In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.

African-American Poets

Harold Bloom
African American Poets Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438112718

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom Pdf

This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance, paying tribute to a heritage that has long been overlooked. Works covered in this text include poems by Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as

Richard Wright

Keneth Kinnamon
Richard Wright Book PDF

Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476609126

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Richard Wright by Keneth Kinnamon Pdf

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Eric L. Haralson
Encyclopedia of American Poetry The Twentieth Century Book PDF

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317763222

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Roses and Revolutions

Dudley Randall
Roses and Revolutions Book PDF

Author : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814334458

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Roses and Revolutions by Dudley Randall Pdf

Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall. Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his life, much of his work is currently out of print or fragmented among numerous anthologies. Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall brings together his most popular poems with his lesser-known short stories, first published in The Negro Digest during the 1960s, and several of his essays, which profoundly influenced the direction and attitude of the Black Arts movement. Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall is arranged in seven sections: "Images from Black Bottom," "Wars: At Home and Abroad," "The Civil Rights Era," "Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects," "Love Poems," "Dialectics of the Black Aesthetic," and "The Last Leap of the Muse." Poems and prose are mixed throughout the volume and are arranged roughly chronologically. Taken as a whole, Randall's writings showcase his skill as a wordsmith and his affinity for themes of love, human contradictions, and political action. His essays further contextualize his work by revealing his views on race and writing, aesthetic form, and literary and political history. Editor Melba Joyce Boyd introduces this collection with an overview of Randall's life and career. The collected writings in Roses and Revolutions not only confirm the talent and the creative intellect of Randall as an author and editor but also demonstrate why his voice remains relevant and impressive in the twenty-first century. Randall was named the first Poet Laureate of the City of Detroit and received numerous awards for his literary work, including the Life Achievement Award from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1986. Students and teachers of African American literature as well as readers of poetry will appreciate this landmark volume.

African American Literature

Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr.
African American Literature Book PDF

Author : Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216043034

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African American Literature by Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr. Pdf

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.

The African American Sonnet

Timo Mueller
The African American Sonnet Book PDF

Author : Timo Mueller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496817860

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The African American Sonnet by Timo Mueller Pdf

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonnets. Based on extensive archival research, The African American Sonnet: A Literary History traces this forgotten tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Timo Müller uses sonnets to open up fresh perspectives on African American literary history. He examines the struggle over the legacy of the Civil War, the trajectories of Harlem Renaissance protest, the tensions between folk art and transnational perspectives in the thirties, the vernacular modernism of the postwar period, the cultural nationalism of the Black Arts movement, and disruptive strategies of recent experimental poetry. In this book, Müller examines the inventive strategies African American poets devised to occupy and reshape a form overwhelmingly associated with Europe. In the tightly circumscribed space of sonnets, these poets mounted evocative challenges to the discursive and material boundaries they confronted.

Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.

John Zheng
Conversations with Jerry W Ward Jr Book PDF

Author : John Zheng
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496845450

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Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr. by John Zheng Pdf

Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature and has been recognized internationally as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright. Ward was Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College, served as a member of both the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Advisory Committee for the US Commission on Civil Rights, and cofounded the Richard Wright Circle and the Richard Wright Newsletter. He has won numerous awards, and in 2001 he was inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr. aims to add an indispensable source to American literature and African American studies. It offers an account of Ward's intelligent and thoughtful responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race, and culture. Throughout the fourteen interviews collected in this volume that range from 1995 to 2021, Ward demonstrates his responsibilities as a contemporary scholar, professor, writer, and social critic. His charming personality glimmers through these interviews, which, in a sense, are inner views that allow us to see into his mind, understand his heart, and appreciate his wit.

Heroism in the New Black Poetry

D.H. Melhem
Heroism in the New Black Poetry Book PDF

Author : D.H. Melhem
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813158136

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Heroism in the New Black Poetry by D.H. Melhem Pdf

D.H. Melhem's clear introductions and frank interviews provide insight into the contemporary social and political consciousness of six acclaimed poets: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dudley Randall, and Sonia Sanchez. Since the 1960s, the poet hero has characterized a significant segment of Black American poetry. The six poets interviewed here have participated in and shaped the vanguard of this movement. Their poetry reflects the critical alternatives of African American life -- separatism and integration, feminism and sexual identity, religion and spirituality, humanism and Marxism, nationalism and internationalism. They unite in their commitment to Black solidarity and advancement.